Saturday, May 2, 2015

Well, there is no good news for Australia in this year's Gender Gap report. Like last year, Australia (p104) had men showing a lower life expectancy than women by 3 years which the WEF scores as women suffering a gender gap. They manage this by redefining life expectancy "equality" as women outliving men by 1.06:1.

The Gender Gap report also lists any category in which women outscore men as "Equality" no matter how onesided. (For example, p364 the US is marked as "equal" in the Educational Attainment category despite women being equal in 2 of the subcategories and leading men in the other 2 subcategories) The WEF must really hate women to define their terms so women can only be behind men or equal to men never ahead of them.

The Gender Gap Report claims that Russia is the most equal country when it comes to life expectancy last year and the second most equal country this year (p74) because Russian men die so much earlier than women.

One might get the impression these are not the most rigorous egalitarians.

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Hi Mr Trudeau,
Having read your comments about "Free Speech Absolutists" and your preference for unfree speech I couldn't help but notice that you expect the authors of Charlie Hebdo to follow the rules of other people's religions.

I assume you wouldn't hold Charlie Hebdo to a different standard than you would hold yourself so I want to encourage you to embrace your position and start following the religious rules of everyone and not just those rules that some people are willing to murder over. (Personally, there is no chance I'll give up bacon for anything).

Anyways, I have bad news for you, the Heaven's Gate religious group believed in wearing uniform black shirts, sweat pants, and black-and-white Nike shoes but they also believed in castration and mass suicide.

Good luck with that.

Sincerely,
Col. Milquetoast

p.s. I'll leave it to someone more unkind than me to suggest you might already be ballless

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Clay Aiken is “not a fan” of his former political opponent, Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-N.C.), calling the congresswoman a “b----” and an "idiot" in a Monday interview.…Aiken appeared on Howard Stern’s SiriusXM radio show on Monday to promote his Esquire Network docu-series “The Runner-Up,” which follows his failed congressional campaign.“You should see the second episode, because she’s a b----,” Aiken told Stern, referring to Ellmers.“She’s an idiot,” Aiken said of the 51-year-old lawmaker, “And I think her self-esteem is just in the floor, under the floor.”At another point in the wide-ranging interview, Aiken, 36, referred to the lawmaker with a derogatory slang term for the female anatomy.

Clay Aiken believes that you can disagree without being disagreeable. He wants to restore civility to Congress. That is one of the reasons why he is running …Let's keep the momentum going. And let's restore civility to Congress.

I suspect he wanted civility and compromise from others not from himself.

Respect is reciprocal so he is simply setting the standard for how he wants to be treated.

About Me

Col. Milquetoast was one of the thousands of monkeys banging on typewriters since the mid-seventies trying to recreate Macbeth. Having become disaffected by the intense pressure involved, his complete lack of talent and his superior's refusal to make use of his prehensile tail he quit to lead a simple but mostly contented life in the midwest. Occasionally he writes in third person when there was no good reason not to write in first person.